Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, The Sun Also Rises follows American and British expatriates in France and Spain in the years following World War I. The novel electrified the literary community of the 1920s and was a popular success; it advanced Hemingway’s public celebrity and solidified the modernist style for which he would be recognized twenty-eight years later when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This edition provides an introduction, textual notes, a chronology, a bibliography, and six appendices of materials from the early twentieth century that will assist readers in interpreting The Sun Also Rises. This volume also addresses long-standing issues with the original editing of the novel and concerns about its portrayals of Jewish people, Black Americans, women, and others. Ultimately, this Broadview Edition assists readers in understanding a work whose references and contexts have been obscured over its one-hundred-year existence, and it also opens up opportunities for new interpretations of this landmark novel. Comments “Carefully crafting a volume designed to introduce students and readers interested in the modernist period to this ground-breaking work of fiction, Moddelmog made key decisions that greatly enhanced the usefulness of this edition ... This edition may well become the go-to- text for teaching The Sun Also Rises.” — Ellen Andrews Knodt, The Hemingway Review “Debra Moddelmog’s edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises gives readers a wealth of useful information. Besides a detailed Chronology and an expertly written Introduction, the editor has arranged more than two dozen excerpts from relevant cultural and social history. One learns from materials relating to war and post-war America, changing gender roles, the devastating influenza pandemic, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the power of immigration, and a wide assortment of critical views about the stripped-down style of United States modernism. A premier Hemingway scholar, Moddelmog also includes materials written by Hemingway himself—among these his Paris Review interview and excerpts about writing from Death in the Afternoon.” — Linda Wagner-Martin, Past President of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society “Moddelmog’s edition of The Sun Also Rises is far more than its title suggests. It provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the novel’s modernist context, written by a Hemingway scholar of the highest caliber, as well as a wealth of contemporary primary sources with which students can work. Don’t dismiss Hemingway because of the received caricature; study him, with Moddelmog as your guide, to appreciate the rich complexity of the artist in his time.” — Alex Vernon, Hendrix College
